Suspender-end



(No'ModeL) v V G. H. PHELPS. Suspender End.

No. 242,790. Patentdjune14,1881,

aw 0% i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. PHELPS, WEST NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

S USPENDER-END.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,790, dated June 14,1881.

Application filed April 26, 1881,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEO. H. PHELPS, of WestNewton, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have in vented anew and useful Improvementin Suspender-Ends, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification.

This invention in suspenders relates to improvements in the formation ofthe end pieces, whereby the same are rendered elastic and have given tothem great strength and durability. a

My invention consists of an end piece composed of a fibrous core havingspiral springs placed thereon at intervals, the springs and the corebetween them being inclosed within a tubular textile covering, portionsof the core directly inclosed .by the tubular covering being bent orfolded into loop form to serve for button-holes.

Figure 1 represents in perspective a suspender having an end pieceembodying my in vention, a portion of the tubular textile cover beingbroken out to show the spiral spring. Fig. 2 is a detail showing one ofthe metal clasps which serve to hold the textile covered part of thecore in loop form for a buttonhole. Fig. 3 is a detail representing thecontinuous blank, from which the end pieces are formed, before the sameis cut up into pieces, on the line as m, of proper length for separateend pieces. Fig. 4 is a detail showing two spiral springs arranged uponthe core; and Fig. 5 is a detail of the core, all the springs havingbeen removed.

In the practice of my invention, I take a fibrous core, A, and tie in itknots a a a a at suitable distances apart. The knots a a and a a aredistant from each other greater than the length of the spiral springs1), within which, at their ends, the said knots will fall when thesprings b b are placed on the core A, as in Fig. 4. The springs I) thusapplied will so hold the core between the knots a a and a a as tofurnish a sufficient amount of slack therein between knots a a and a ato permit the spiral spring to be elongated for the proper distancebefore the core is fully straightened out, which checks the furtherelongation of the springs.

It is obvious that I might connect the ends (No model.)

of the spiral springs 11 by short pieces of cord, substantially equal tothe length of the core, between the knots a a omitting from the corethose parts of it between the knots a a and a a but in such constructionthere would be no definite limit to which the springs I) could stretch,so I prefer to use a core in one piece, rather than in several pieces;and, further, a continuouseore to limit the extension of the springsinsures the formation of a better external covering or jacket.

The core, having been prepared as in Fig.

4, is placed in or. at the axis of a suitable braiding-machine, or apicture or other cord covering-machine containing warps and a shut tleor equivalent for a weft-thread, where it is covered by a textiletubularcoverin g, 0. (Represented in Figs. 1 and 3.)

Referring to Fig. 1, it will be noticed that the large parts 2, ofsubstantially equal length, are those where the spring is located. Thesmall covered part 3 is that between the knots a a and the small partsat represent a longer portion of the core with only the textile cover 0upon it.

Having made a piece of material, such as represented in Fig. 3, ofindefinite length, the same is out or separated through the parts 4 ondotted lines 00 00, and the small parts or ends so produced are bent ordoubled to form loops Z, (see Fig. 1,) which are secured in position bymetal clips or pieces m, the said loops so held serving as button-holesto engage with buttons.

The small covered flexible part 3 of the core, between the springs l),is made to engage the hook it of the usual eye or loop, 0, connectedwith the strap or webbing p of the suspender. The end piece, Fig. 1,will, when strained, stretch until the core-piece A is fullystraightened.

I do not broadly claim a fibrous core within aspiral spring, as theyhave been combined in the manufacture of garters.

Instead of the metal pieces m, I might se cure the parts in loop form bystitches.

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, asuspender-endcomposed of a core, A, surrounded by two independent spiral springshaving their adjacent ends separated, as de- IOG 10 distended by thecore, and a tubular seamless covering for the springs and core betweenthe springs, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. PHELPS.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, BERNIOE J. NoYEs.

